image: General Electric In Thursday’s New York Times, I write about General Electric’s bid to to become a major player in the U.S. solar industry: SAN FRANCISCO — In a move that could shake up the American solar industry, General Electric plans to announce on Thursday that it will build the nation’s largest photovoltaic panel [...]
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GE to build U.S.’ largest solar factory, shake up market
Posted in energy, renewable energy, solar energy, tagged General Electric, PrimeStar Solar on April 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »
GE hits the electric car showroom
Posted in electric cars, tagged Chevrolet Volt, General Electric on November 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
photo: Todd Woody I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. With the first mass-produced electric cars set to hit American streets next month, there’s been a lot of to-ing and fro-ing in the media about whether consumers will actually buy the vehicles once they’re in showrooms. But as General Electric made clear [...]
Stalking the slow fat rabbit: GE’s bid to make the dumb grid smart
Posted in green financing, green grid, green tech, smart grid, tagged GE, General Electric, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Rockport Capital Partners, smart grid, venture capital on July 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
photo: GE In my Green State column on Grist on Thursday, I write about General Electric’s $200 million contest to find ideas and technologies to accelerate deployment of the smart grid: Got a killer smart grid idea? General Electric has $200 million to spend. Jeff Immelt, chief executive of the industrial conglomerate, flew into San [...]
T. Boone Pickens’ big wind play
Posted in climate change, energy, environment, global warming, green tech, wind power, tagged General Electric, Jeffrey Immelt, Mesa Power, Pampa Wind Project, T. Boone Pickens, Texas, wind turbines on May 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
For some on the right coast, the current renewable energy craze seems like a rerun of that ’70s show, the province of California dreamers and pie-in-the-sky Silicon Valley techies. But increasingly it’s all about Big Business, a point driven home Thursday by a deal struck by two decidedly non-crunchy granola types: billionaire oilman T. Boone [...]
